Seeing is Believing: How Marie Tharp Changed Geology Forever

Smithsonian: Marie Tharp's maps helped prove continental drift was real. But her work was initially dismissed as "girl talk"

There’s no denying that maps can change the way we think about the world. But what about the way we think about what’s underneath? That was the case in 1953, when a young geologist named Marie Tharp made a map that vindicated the controversial theory of plate tectonics.